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Facilitating regeneration of the tendon-to-bone interface can reduce the risk of postoperative retear after rotator cuff repair. Unfortunately, undesirable inflammatory responses following injury, difficulties in fibrocartilage regeneration, and bone loss in the surrounding area are major contributors to suboptimal tendon-bone healing. Thus, the development of biomaterials capable of regulating macrophage polarization to a favorable phenotype and promoting the synchronous regeneration of the tendon-to-bone interface is currently a top priority. Here, strontium-doped mesoporous bioglass nanoparticles (Sr-MBG) were synthesized through a modulated sol-gel method and Bi-lineage Inducible and Immunoregulatory Electrospun Fibers Scaffolds (BIIEFS) containing Sr-MBG were fabricated. The BIIEFS were biocompatible, showed sustained release of multiple types of bioactive ions, enhanced osteogenic and chondrogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), and facilitated macrophage polarization towards the M2 phenotype . The implantation of BIIEFS at the torn rotator cuff resulted in greater numbers of M2 macrophages and the synchronous regeneration of tendon, fibrocartilage, and bone at the tendon-to-bone interface, leading to a significant improvement in the biomechanical strength of the supraspinatus tendon-humerus complexes. Our research offers a feasible strategy to fabricate immunoregulatory and multi-lineage inducible electrospun fibers scaffolds incorporating bioglass nanoparticles for the regeneration of soft-to-hard tissue interfaces.
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Front Bioeng Biotechnol
July 2025
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Introduction: The high rate of retear following rotator cuff repair is largely attributed to the absence of a fibrocartilage layer and limited bone regeneration capacity. We aim to evaluate a bioadhesive derived from decellularized porcine annulus fibrosus extracellular matrix, loaded with zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8), and to promote rotator cuff tendon-bone healing.
Methods: Three adhesive formulations were developed: (1) silk fibroin/tannic acid (ST group), (2) ST combined with decellularized porcine annulus fibrosus extracellular matrix (ST/dECM group), and (3) ST/dECM supplemented with ZIF-8 (ST/dECM/ZIF-8 group).
Sci Rep
August 2025
School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK.
Transmission of strain across the tendon-bone interface otherwise known as the enthesis, is crucial to the movement of the skeleton. Imaging the inner structure and understanding the way that strain is transmitted across this interface is crucial to understanding the way it responds to load, how it becomes injured through trauma and how intervention and materials can be used to repair the enthesis after injury. Micro-CT imaging and digital volume correlation (DVC) have been widely used for musculoskeletal biomechanics analysis.
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November 2025
Dept. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, USA.
The severity of rotator cuff injury outcomes and a lack of tendon-to-bone enthesis regeneration strategies have inspired advances in biomaterials science to develop methods for interfacial tissue engineering. Here, we demonstrate a triphasic biomaterial comprising a non-mineralized, anisotropic collagen scaffold and a mineralized isotropic collagen scaffold linked via a continuous thiolated gelatin (Gel-SH) interface. This material provides a stratified environment in composition and porous architecture, and we report functional activity of human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) across the scaffold.
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July 2025
Department of Orthopaedics, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100053, China.
Background: Rotator cuff repair in patients with osteoporosis (OP) is often hindered by poor tendon-to-bone healing and a high rate of retears, largely due to compromised bone remodeling at the repair site. However, few studies have investigated the relationship between computed tomography (CT)-based quantitative analysis of bone microarchitecture and the prognosis of rotator cuff healing.
Methods: An OP rat model was established via bilateral ovariectomy combined with dexamethasone administration.
Adv Healthc Mater
July 2025
The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA.
Due to the complexspatial gradients in composition and structure at the native tendon-to-bone attachment, it remains a clinical challenge to repair rotator cuff tears. Herein, we describe a biomimetic scaffold with dual gradients in osteogenic and tendon enthesis effectors to regulate the graded differentiation of stem cells for tendon-to-bone repair. Funnel-shaped microchannels prompted stem cells to rapidly infiltrate into the scaffold to experience the dual gradients in biological effectors along the walls of each microchannel.
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